These mushrooms have smooth, sticky, and somewhat flat caps with a dark honey-brown color and a ring around the stalk. They usually grow in loose groups on decaying wood and logs, both deciduous ...

The early mornings that were filled with as many as twenty kinds of bird songs six weeks ago are now silent except for persistent red-eyed vireos, wood peewees and indigo buntings. By afternoon ...

The death cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides, is a deadly fungus commonly mistaken for edible mushrooms. The poisonous fungus is usually found during autumn but wet weather has prompted its early ...

Death caps have a pale yellowish-green, at times pale brown or near-white, umbrella-shaped cap of 10-cm diameter, a white stem, white spores on the cap, a cup-like formation at the base of the ...

While most poisonous mushrooms have been graced with self-explanatory nicknames over the years, the death cap mushroom might have the most foreboding alias of them all. Formally known as Amanita ...

I was told that dogs know which mushrooms to eat and which to stay away from, but that is not the case for Amanita phalloides—aka the death cap mushroom. As the name suggests, these mushrooms ...

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From a 'bleeding tooth' mushroom to one that appears to wear a veil, here are the world's weirdest, rarest, and most beautiful mushrooms. Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing ...

Within 16 hours, I realized that Remi ate a Death Cap mushroom and had a 5-10% chance of living. Remi was a Taiwanese rescue who was found in a storm drain as a puppy with her siblings.